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Industry experts urge disillusioned local investors to ‘buy when it’s down and sell when it’s up’ In a highly volatile atmosphere and with low investor confidence in the Colombo Bourse, experts earlier this week went against the negative sentiments and instead stated that now is the time to buy. These views were aired at a ...
- Why Lion leads frontier (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Sustainability in volatility: The bankers’ challenge (Category: Business)
Given one month extension pending reconstitution Adding to the confusion and controversies, the Board of Directors of the BOI is in limbo with subject Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera giving it a month’s extension. The move follows the tenure of the members of the Board ending recently and until the latest extension indicated this week, ...
- BOI says approvals up 100%, agreements signed by 25% in 1Q (Category: Business)
- Challenges for FDI (Category: Business)
- Ministry of Economic Development breaks silence; responds to tourism, BOI issues (Category: Business)
- FDI exceeds 1.5 billion USD target set by BOI for 2023 -State Minister of Investment Promotion (Category: Breaking News)
INSEAD, the leading international business school, has partnered with leading TMT advisory and investment firm Delta Partners to release a joint white paper that defines core emerging markets, growth drivers as well as opportunities and challenges in the global telecommunications industry. At a time when Facebook is getting ready to IPO, its focus on emerging ...
- Global Information Technology Report: living in a hyperconnected world (Category: Business)
- Colombo to host GSMA mWomen Working Group meeting (Category: Business)
- Dialog extends deal with Cable&Wireless to provide managed services to customers (Category: Business)
( April 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera we...
- IOC eyeing oil refining in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Does Sri Lanka need India to run Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- China to provide US$ 600 million to finance the phase II of the Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- IOC considering setting up a US$ 3.5 billion worth oil refinery in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera went to China and secured assurances of a US$1....
- Persian Prop (Category: Business)
- Refining Revision (Category: Business)
- China set to build new Sri Lanka refinery, says Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Oil Plan (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis The volatility in Middle Eastern markets, coupled with the increasing issue of low quality due to competition and increasing costs, has placed the local tea industry in a big fix, which could, if unattended, immediately mark the end of a Sri Lankan legacy in four to five years. Despite Sri Lankan tea ...
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Planters’ Association Chief says turbulent times for tea (Category: Business)
- Sector report (Category: Business)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Iran, facing sanctions that could cripple its oil exports, has told world powers it wants to resume long-stalled talks with “new initiatives”, and France said it might be open to addressing suspicions about its nuclear programme. Tehran made the offer in a letter to the EU’s foreign policy chief obtained by Reuters on Thursday, ...
- Letter To Tiran (Category: Breaking News)
- Marsh sends letter of demand to SLC (Category: Business)
- Iran halts oil sales to UK, France on eve of talks (Category: Business)
- Iran imposes oil ‘counter-sanctions’ on EU (Category: Business)
GENEVA (Reuters): The 153 members of the World Trade Organization agree on two things: We’re in a hole. And we must keep digging. The hole is the Doha Development Round, a decade-old negotiation that was billed as the next stage of trade liberalisation after the creation of the WTO itself. After repeated failures to clinch ...
- Lamy burglary victim believes robber may have been hit man (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Lamy burglary victim believes robber may have been hit man (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Lamy burglary victim believes robber may have been hit man (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Lamy burglary victim believes robber may have been hit man (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Ever since Richard Nixon's 1973 promise to attain energy independence, successive U.S. presidents all have pledged the same goal, even as foreign supplies composed a larger and larger share of the U.S. energy mix. Now, almost 40 years later, a measure of independence is within reach. But as this booming mountain town in northeastern Pennsylvania shows, the quest for independence involves both ...
- Energy saviour? (Category: Technology)
- Obama sets ambitious goal to reduce US oil imports (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Seattle chosen to lead LED street light study (Category: USA, Washington)
- Imperative to obtain insights from past mistakes and avoid repetition  President (Category: Breaking News)
Countries to identify targeted goods over the next year Plan to cut tariffs to 5 percent on list of goods APEC pledges to eliminate domestic content requirements HONOLULU (Reuters): Asia Pacific leaders, including the United States and China, committed on Sunday to slash tariffs on environmental goods and services in a bid to boost trade ...
- Chandula to talk on cross border microfinance at APEC Inclusion Forum (Category: Business)
- APEC leaders, including Trump, agree on free trade (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- APEC leaders, including Trump, agree on free trade (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- APEC leaders, including Trump, agree on free trade (Category: USA, South Dakota)
In business the most difficult part is finding, servicing and retaining markets and market share. In exports, this is even more challenging. The ultimate in value addition is brand marketing. The optimum return in global business is achieved by the growth and development of brands. The national economy where the brand is owned has a ...
- ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’? The billion dollar question (Category: Business)
- Storms brewing in teacups (Category: Business)
LONDON(Reuters): World stock markets will recover next year from a nightmarish 2011 that has wiped trillions of dollars off share prices, according to a Reuters poll that showed almost all major stock indexes ending 2011 in the red. Darkening economic prospects and fears the euro zone debt crisis will unravel into financial catastrophe sent global ...
- World stocks outlook tempered by euro zone: Reuters Poll (Category: Business)
- Investors peer past gloom, eye Asian economic rebound (Category: Business)
- Key freight index to rise 35% in H2 on China: Poll (Category: Business)
Eshana De Silva, the Chairman of the Esna Group of Companies and Shermans Logistics has been officially appointed as the Honorary Consul to Kazakhstan. De Silva is also a Director of Pan Asia Bank, Mc Marine and functions as a board member of the Board of Investment (BOI) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). ...
- G.L. to Russia and Kazakhstan (Category: Breaking News)
- Gujarat opens door for Lankan companies (Category: Breaking News)
- Current Form (Category: Business)
- Middle Order (Category: Business)
The control systems of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational.Russia’s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also has raised the specter of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, but suggested last week that th...
- A management meltdown at crippled plant? (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Crisis at crippled Japan plant could continue for weeks (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- More radioactive water spills from plant (Category: USA, South Carolina)
By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...
- India’s Chinese Bogeymen (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India playing the great game in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka As Asia basks in the glow of the emergence of China and India and benefits from it (economists have even coined a term, ‘CHINDIA’, for this win-win strategic perspective), opinion makers and the media in Sri...
- India says cannot cut economic ties with Sri Lanka due to fear of China's influence (Category: Breaking News)
- Rail Deals (Category: Business)
- Opposition slams Government over pro-China policy (Category: Breaking News)
- Commercial Move (Category: Business)
By: Bruce Cheadle OTTAWA — There’s a global recession and Canada’s economy is not immune. Shiploads of strange, foreign refugees — economic migrants and oppressed minorities — have been landing on our shores, fleeing civil war, economic up heaval and...
- History may not be kind to Jason Kenney as it was to Gustav Schroeder (Category: Breaking News)
- 3rd war crimes suspect arrested in Toronto (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Canada probes who paid for Tamil refugees’ travel (Category: Breaking News)
- Toews' request delays Khadr's transfer to Canada (Category: Canada, Ontario)
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Sri Lanka’s decision to set up a 1,200MW nuclear power plant by 2025 is expected to be the single largest investment in the country. The nuclear power plant is aimed at generating cheap electricity to address the increasing demand while drawing large investments to boost the country’s economy. The Cabinet of ...
- Environmental concern over nuclear plans (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sticks to nuclear energy hopes even after Fukushima disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Environmentalists slam Sri Lanka's nuclear power plant plans (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB takes nuclear aim (Category: Breaking News)
By K. Ratnayake Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s trip to New York and speech at the UN General Assembly last week had two main purposes: to cover up for war crimes committed during the country’s civil war and to appeal...
- Sri Lanka calls for anti-UN report rally (Category: Breaking News)
- Probe Pressure (Category: Business)
- Parallel world’s short circuit in Oxford (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil Aussie community criticises govt. decision (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka It is not that Sri Lanka’s foreign relations are not in need of repair, especially after five dismal years between Lakshman Kadirgamar and GL Pieris, but it is ironic in the extreme when the criticism comes...
- India has helped Sri Lanka to best of its ability, will assist with IMF: Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka permits entry to controversial Chinese tracking vessel Yuang Wang 5 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka asks China to defer arrival of ship after India objects (Category: Breaking News)
- Impact of security considerations on foreign policy crafting (Category: Breaking News)
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- The Sinhalese are content with an unjust peace: But are Tamils? (Category: Breaking News)
- July 1983 Pogrom: The Black Week That Devastatingly Impacted Sri Lanka Forever (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
By Rajan Philips On May 17 in Tehran, the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil announced that they had reached a deal on exchanging uranium fuel for use in the Tehran Research Reactor....
- Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear deal (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Can Tehran Non Aligned Summit End Iran’s International Isolation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran loads fuel rods into 1st nuclear power plant (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit as China slams new sanctions (Category: Business)
By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Since winning the war, according to media reports, persons in both the public and private sectors have been talking about converting Sri Lanka into various hubs in such sectors as business, aviation, shipping, energy etc....
- Lanka expects India, Japan, New Fortress to join in LNG deal: Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021- Two 600 MW natural gas power plants (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021- Two 600 MW natural gas power plants (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021- Two 600 MW natural gas power plants (Category: Breaking News)
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